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Coronavirus in Sub-Saharan Africa - How africans in 12 nations are responding to the COVID-19 outbreak

GeoPoll (2020) C2

The spread of COVID-19 poses a challenge for emerging markets such as those in Africa and Latin America. While governments around the world are suffering from a shortage of ventilators, hospital beds, and personal protective equipment, availability of these items is already extremely limited in some... more

Technical Note on Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (2020) CC

This is the first version of the INEE technical guideline to support education during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is a living document that will be regularly updated to meet the learning and well-being needs of children, adolescents, youth, teachers, caregivers and other education personnel affected b... more

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Strategic Considerations for Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 on Key Population-Focused HIV Programs

FHI 360; UNAIDS reliefweb (2020) C2

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone, including key populations at higher risk of HIV. And the gains made against other infectious diseases, including HIV, are at risk of being reversed as a result of disruptions caused by COVID-19. This is the background to a new report published by FHI 360,... more

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Reducing transmission of SARS - CoV - 2

Prather, K.A., C.C. Wang , and R.T. Schooley (2020) CC

What Are We Learning About Protecting Children in the Community? An inter-agency review of the evidence on community-based child protection mechanisms in humanitarian and development settings

Mike Wessells Save the Children (2008) CC

How to respond to, mitigate, and prevent risks to children’s protection and well-being is a profound, if unanswered, question. Practitioners agree that it is necessary to develop or strengthen protective factors at multiple levels, such as the family, community, and national levels.

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Quick Tips on COVID-19 and Migrant, Refugee and Internally Displaced Children (Children on the Move)

UNICEF (2020) C_UNICEF

This document will be continuously updated. Version as of April 27th, 2020 Migrant and displaced children are at heightened risk to the immediate and secondary impacts of COVID-19. They often live in cramped conditions with limited access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), may be in immig... more

South Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan 2020 - COVID-19 Addendum (June 2020)

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2020) CC

This document summarizes preparedness and response activities to address the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in South Sudan through the end of 2020. The addendum includes the activities and financial requirements of the updated National COVID-19 Response Plan. Originally issued in March prio... more

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Sahel Crisis 2020: Responding to the urgent needs of refugees, internally displaced, returnees and others of concern (June 2020)

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2020) CC

he central Sahel region—Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger—is facing a severe humanitarian and protection crisis. Massive displacement, most of it driven by intense and largely indiscriminate violence perpetrated by a range of armed actors against civilian populations, is taking place across the regi... more

Evaluation of Child Friendly Spaces

World Vision (2015) CC

This evaluation is the fifth in a series of structured evaluations of CFS and was completed as part of three-year collaboration with World Vision and Columbia University. It was conducted with Syrian refugees in an urban setting in Zarqa, Jordan during the months of February to August 2014. The CFS ... more

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Promoting Positive Environments for Women and Girls - Guidelines for Women and Girls Friendly Spaces in South Sudan

UNICEF (2015) C_UNICEF

The creaNon of ‘friendly spaces’ for women and girls has been a key strategy in the protecNon and empowerment of women 1 and girls in South Sudan since conflict re-erupted in the country in December 2013. This document provides guidance on the aims of these spaces, and how they can best be e... more

Risk Communication and Community Engagement: Positive Practices from Europe during COVID

UNHCR (2020) CC

This paper is an initial compilation of the promising practices on risk communication and community engagement that have developed in Europe during the COVID pandemic, in complementarity to the UNHCR’s Practical Recommendations and Good Practice to Address Protection Concerns in the Context of the... more

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Checklist to Protect from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse during COVID-19

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC, et al. (2020) CC

This checklist is to accompany the full Interim Technical Note on Protection form Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) during COVIID-19 Response.

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Guía Interna Alerta de género para brote de COVID-19

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC, et al. (2020) C1

Recognizing the extent to which the COVID-19 outbreaks affects women and men differently is hugely important. Some preliminary data suggested that more men than women are dying, potentially due to sex-based immunological differences, higher rates of cardiovascular disease for men and lifestyle choic... more

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Regional Situation Report for Syria Crisis Issue No. 92 April 1-30 2020

United Nations Population Fund UNFPA (2020) C1

Syrian Arab Republic: COVID-19 Humanitarian Update No. 25 as of 10 June 2021

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2021) C1

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The Covid-19 Pandemic and Conflict Dynamics in Syria

Asseburg, M.; H. Azizi, G. Dalay and M. Pieper Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (2020) CC

Neither a Turning Point Nor an Overall Determinant Nine years into the (civil) war, Syria is in an extraordinarily poor position to confront the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead of the pandemic leading towards the uniting of local, regional, and international actors involved in Syria around a common purp... more

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COVID-19 Response to Refugees and Host Communities in Bangladesh

Act Alliance (2020) CC

ACT Alliance appeal: Global Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic – ACT201 - Sub-Appeal - ACT 201-BGD -

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Thematic COVID-19 Bulletin: Child Protection Myanmar

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2020) CC

With the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) across Myanmar, many children and caregivers are required to stay in quarantine centres, in isolation and in hospitals, and special attention is needed to ensure children’s rights are protected in these settings. Violence, exploitation, abuse and negle... more

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Continuing care during COVID-19: adopting lifesaving approaches to treat acute malnutrition

International Rescue Committee (2020) C2

The risk of increasing rates of acute malnutrition during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the urgent need to adapt, and expand access to, acute malnutrition diagnosis and treatment services in humanitarian and fragile contexts.

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Mozambique Revised humanitarian response Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) May–December 2020

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2020) CC